Lea Rue

Lea Rue is a Gloom-Kaohportian singer songwriter. She was born in Shadowside, Darkwood, and has lived in both Darkwood and Kaohportia on and off, with citizenship in both countries. Rue had a short stint of fame in 2016, following the release of her one hit "Sleep!". After losing to Alizee in a close race during the Kaoh preselection for Maia Song Contest 3, Rue had many public freak outs, including interrupting Mariette while she was announcing Darkwood's votes in Maia Song Contest 3. Nearly a year after these incidents, Rue slowly came back to the public eye.

Fame
In late 2015, Rue began to come to the public eye. She had released the song "Sleep!", which had initially gone unnoticed, but slowly gained more promotion and eventually, throughout the summer of 2016, had become a big hit in Darkwood, peaking at #2.

Maia Song Contest 3
During the preparation phase of Maia Song Contest 3, Rue was announced as a participant in Ka'ohi par Maia 2, where she would fight for chance to represent Kaohportia with her hit song "Sleep!". Rue was drawn to perform in the first semi final, and qualified along with two others. In the final, some fans were certain of victory, however, in the end, Alizee beat her into 2nd place overall. After the results, an enraged Rue stormed onto the stage and shouted obscenities towards the audience and voters before fleeing out of the venue and into the nearby forest. A search party was sent to find her, but no results turned up. Weeks later, during the broadcast of the grand final of Maia Song Contest 3, Rue made her first appearance since she had gone missing. During the presentation of votes of Darkwood by Mariette, Rue rushed onto the screen and pushed her out of the way before screaming and yelling at audience, calling them "morons" along with other select words. Mariette then began to fight back against Rue, trying to push her away. During this fight, Mariette grabbed Rue by the hair and pulled, which revealed that Rue was wearing a wig and was bald underneath. Rue, embarrassed, once again ran out from the area before she was caught by the police. She was sentenced to community service for her actions.